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From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Aneesh Kumar KV <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: volanoMark regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:50:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1210776633.5781.12.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080514134414.GA12693@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 19:14 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:20:47AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > It looks like things like find_busiest_group() just think everything is
> > peachy when the imbalance is < 1 task - which with all this grouping
> > stuff is not necessarily true.
> 
> fwiw, the following hack seems to help bring down regression to ~5%
> (b/n 2.6.25 and 2.6.26-rc1 with USER_SCHED):
> 
> Also in the patch GROUP_SCALE can probably be less than what I used (and
> needs a ifdef GROUP_SCHED) ..

On my little Q6600 with git.today, it made no real difference, whether
NORMALIZED_SLEEPERS was enabled or not.  I see roughly 10-15% idle time
w/wo this patch, whereas pre-regression, it's < 2%.

	-Mike


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-14 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06  2:06 volanoMark regression with kernel 2.6.26-rc1 Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-06  5:41 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-06 11:52 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-07 17:33   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  5:18     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  5:32       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  5:40       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  5:53         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  6:04           ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  6:11           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-09 15:52             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-09 15:54               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-12  1:39               ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-12  2:04                 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-12  2:37                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-12  3:33                   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-12  4:52                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-12  5:02                       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-12  5:43                         ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-12  9:04                         ` Mike Galbraith
2008-05-12  9:20                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-14  9:22                             ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-14 13:44                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-14 14:50                               ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2008-05-14 15:12                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-15  8:20                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-15  8:41                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-15 17:10                                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2008-05-07  7:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07  9:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07  9:33   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-07 17:34   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-07 18:58     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-08  6:07       ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  5:20     ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  5:34       ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  6:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-07 17:42 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  5:21   ` Zhang, Yanmin
2008-05-08  5:39     ` Dhaval Giani
2008-05-08  6:03       ` Zhang, Yanmin

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